TWA 800 - Serious thread.
jonathon
grafolog at netcom.com
Wed Sep 11 11:26:50 PDT 1996
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Gary Howland wrote:
> > But the public *is* asked to assent to those methods - your chance to vote
> > on them is known colloquially as "jury duty".
But judges have said that Jury Nullification is not acceptable
legal practice.
> Ah, but isn't "jury selection" the process of selecting those that don't
> know they are judging the law as well as the case?
You forgot something else.
Jury Selection also involves the removal from the jury any
individual who might have some knowledge about anything which
might be relevent to the case.
So the only people on juries are those who are unemployed,
on uneducated or usually both. That they are easilly manipulated
is a further virtue, from the POV of the Injustice system the US
has.
xan
jonathon
grafolog at netcom.com
The one who does nothing
can win over the one who rushes around
to all the things.
The one who is gentle
can win over the one who is strong.
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